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HAUNTED MAZE
It’s spooky season!
Hearing set for drive-by shooting suspects BY NEAL PUTNAM | LA JOLLA VILLAGE NEWS
La Jolla chef launches ‘Caulifloodle’ dish at Noodles & Company SEE PAGE 5
SEE PAGE 7 Birch’s Haunted Aquarium and other La Jolla favorites return this month for Halloween! We’ve rounded up the best trick-or-treating events, fall festivals and spooky drink specials to make this Oct. 31 the best yet!
The White Lady of La Jolla and other local lore SEE PAGE 8
Todd Gloria and other notable San Diegans attend SDHS’ Fur Ball SEE PAGE 11
Native American metate returns to Cuvier Park BY DAVE SCHWAB A Native American metate grinding stone at Cuvier Park in La Jolla, displaced by a sidewalk installation and temporarily stored by the city, has been returned to its rightful place. A metate is a flat or slightly hollowed oblong stone on which materials such as grain and cocoa are ground using a smaller stone. The La Jolla metate, located adjacent to the Whale View Point bluff top pathway along Coast Boulevard at the foot of Cuvier Street, was dug out and stored in a warehouse when the new sidewalk was installed a couple years ago. It has now been restored near its original location. “It was a touchstone for them around the coast that showed the footprint that they were here — and they're still here,” pointed out La Jolla attorney Courtney Coyle, of the metate’s significance to
local tribes. Noting the metate’s presence was “subtle,” Coyle said the city overlooked it. “They maybe relied on some old archaeology reports and missed it,” she said adding the metate’s presence “would have been unmistakable to a tribal person or archaeologist.” Coyle said La Jolla Parks and Beaches, Inc. deserves an assist for helping get the metate returned. When the parks group, which advises the city on La Jolla shoreline parks, learned the Native American artifact had been removed, it sent a letter to city and tribal officials. An excerpt from that letter reads: “LJPB was a motivating force in the request of the city to install a sidewalk in the area where this artifact was previously located. … LJPB expresses regret for the SEE METATE PG. 2
A Jan. 8, 2020 preliminary hearing was set Tuesday (Oct. 8) for two men accused of killing a woman and wounding three others at a La Jolla house party on June 23, 2019. Odyssey Sellers Carrillo, 18, was arrested July 17 by San Diego Police for the murder of Nina Silver, 20, who was standing outside of a party with a group at 12:30 a.m. off Cuvier Street near Pearl Street in La Jolla. Police arrested Malik Joshua Campbell, 20, on Sept. 11, and he also is charged with murder. Both are also charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon in the same shooting spree in which a gunman fired shots into the crowd. Deputy District Attorney Ted Fiorito declined to say Tuesday as to which defendant was the alleged gunman and which one was the driver. The facts of the case have not been discussed in court. Both men appeared before San Diego Superior Court Judge Michael Smyth, who also set a status hearing for Dec. 9. Court documents say Carrillo was convicted of robbery at gunpoint and he was barred from possessing a firearm. Carrillo is charged in this case with being a person who was barred from possessing a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun when the incident in La Jolla occurred. He is also charged with evading officers with reckless driving on July 17 before his arrest. Both men remain in the George Bailey Detention Facility. Carrillo is being held without bail, but Campbell’s bail figure is $5 million. Both have pleaded not guilty.